Compared to 2010, production prices in 2011 in agriculture increased by 18%. Compared to 2010, crop Production prices increased by 22.7%, livestock production – by 13.1%, which was largely affected by price increases for production resources – fuel, electric energy, mineral fertilizer, plant protection equipment, feeder grains.

Prices for cereals increased in 2011 by 27%, colza – 34.3%, potatoes – 30.3%, prices for vegetables decreased by 12.7%, for fruits and berries – by 12%, data from the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia states.

The average grain purchase price significantly increased – from LVL 106.06 per ton in 2010 to LVL 134.70 per ton in 2011, in other words by 27%, including wheat price – from LVL 110.21 per ton to LVL 138.82 per ton, or by 26%, rye – from LVL 79.72 per ton to LVL 120.19 per ton, or by 50.8%, barley – from LVL 92.86 per ton to LVL 118.62 per ton, or by 27.7%.

Livestock production price increase index in 2011, compared to 2010, was affected by livestock meat production price increase by 18.4%: pork – by 8.4%, poultry – by 4.6% and milk – by 16.5%. Sheep and goat meat production prices dropped by 7.6% and egg production prices – by 3.1%.

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a visit this Wednesday to Kaliningrad, the westernmost point of Russia, but the reports about his trip in the Russian enclave and over the border in Lithuania were strikingly different.

Latvian airBaltic airline carried 393,312 passengers in July 2017, which is 21% more than the same period last year. The number of passengers carried by airBaltic remains the highest it has ever been in the airline’s history, BNN was informed by the company.

U.S. Air Force Brigade’s Task Force Phoenix helicopters, which are stationed in Latvia as part of Atlantic Resolve operation, will be performing low-altitude flights from 16:00 to 18:00 from Lielvarde to Dobele on Friday, 18 August.

An Indian citizen travelling from Moscow on a bus was caught at Terehovo border control point in Latvia for presenting officers a fake EU family member’s resident card. No criminal process was launched. The person returned to the country he was travelling from.

From 21 August onward, Rural Support Service plans to start accepting applications for projects to receive support from European Maritime and Fisheries Fund’s action plan for development of fisheries in 2014-2020 as part of projects Innovation, Productive Investments in Aquaculture and Fishing and Aquaculture project processing.

As the Estonian Ministry of Finance wishes to boost the reputation and brand of the Baltic country's public sector, it has announced a procurement tender aimed at preparing an action plan for reaching these goals.

Because of Swedbank’s planned IT modernization work scheduled for the night to Thursday, 17 August, there may be short term problems with payment card and internet banking functionality, the bank warns.

If he became chairman of Unity, Economy Minister Arvils Aseradens would mobilize democratic forces to prevent the possibility of either Aivars Lembergs or Nils Usakovs becoming prime ministers, Aseradens said in an interview to 900 seconds programme of LNT.

The co-founder of the U.S. computer software firm Microsoft, Bill Gates, has allocated to charity 4.6 billion U.S. dollars (3.9 billion euros), which is the philanthropist's highest donation since the year 2000.

Latvia and Russia will exchange 7,000 universal permits for international cargo transports in 2017. This will be the largest universal permit volume in the past 15 years, as reported by Road Directorate.